Europe, moreover, has long memories - and the memory that will linger from the Greek crisis is of a more or less isolated Germany now unwilling to fuel the European integration process in the way it once did.

In the 1962 film version of Harper Lee's masterpiece To Kill A Mockingbird, the image of an ideal childhood -- crayons, marbles, whistles, and coins linger across the screen, opening 1948's depression-era tale about hate, prejudice, fear, and the stupidity of mob rule over the law of the land.